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Article: Obituary: Richard Stevens
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1997
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Richard Stevens, Royal Designer in Industry, was concerned with
the function of everyday things, and for 14 years was head of all
industrial design for Post Office Telecommunications (which later
became British Telecom). He recognised, as indeed had the Royal
Commission that preceded the 1851 Great Exhibition, that what was
lacking in British manufactured goods was not technique but art.
His greatest professional achievement and opportunity was to be
at the helm of the most advanced and extensive, graphic and product
design exercise of post-war Europe. He was himself a designer of
innovative lighting, and had pioneered the development both of
injection-moulded streetlighting lanterns and ...